Table of Contents

The intensification of War Communism, January-September 1920; the intensification of industrial unrest, January-September 1920; the false dawn, September 1920-February 1921; the volynka; the aftermath of the volynka.

Promotional Information

Challenges the view of the Bolshevik revolution, that the upsurge of labour unrest of 1920-22 was the result of the appalling living conditions caused by the Civil War. The book claims that this view is largely a sideshow to the huge conflict between the Bolsheviks and the peasants.